Thanks Pete, seems like you are the only active member. The machine has taken a turn for the worse at the moment, and now the PC is not booting or the screen is not working. I'm going to borrow a laptop and set up to use it as a Mirac PC with and without the desktop tutor. And see how we get on with...

I've been working on the lathe again, I've search the forum and tried about every mirac.go file I can find. Now I've got: IBM.RS2 2 $3F8 4 COM1 $3E8 5 MACHINE DENFORD.KBD 1 18.2 $2F8 3 VGA.CRT 0 MIRAC. APP This seems to make sense as com1 goes the 25 way connecter on the cabinet Com2 seems to be the...

I should have mentioned, With RS232 serial comms an easy way to check if you have the Tx And Rx lines correctly connected, is to use a voltmeter (DMM) to measure the lines with respect to ground (pin 5 on a nine way D), if lines 2 and 3 both measure a negative voltage -5 to -10 then they are probabl...

I've seen the posts about swapping the tx and tx lines, but as the pc is inside I discounted this as could not understand how it would have been swapped, obviously on a Mirac PC the lead from the control box to the external PC could be a straight through or a cross over and this is why you'd might h...

It has a board marked LCB3 (slave board?) which seems to be made by GSM-syntel. s/n 63738
KEB combivert for the three phase supply for the spindle and tool changer,
coolant pump and automatic oiling,

Hi Like many others I'm a Newbie, I've had a Starmill for about a year and decided I needed a Lathe, I eventually found a Mirac at a good price and purchased it. The problem is I don't have any original disks for it. I have a boot disk for windows 95 which gets me into DOS I can then run the MIRAC s...

Wanted DA200 collets 3mm and 4mm.